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Evening Star, Issue 4232, 19 September 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Christchurch, September 19. Mr Jonathan Booker, farmer, was thrown out of his trap on Saturday and died yesterday. In consequence of the success of the hatching out of the trout ova, it was resolved at a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society yesterday to still further reduce them in price to 30s per hundred. The Simonsens succeed Mr Hoskins at the Oddfellows' Hall, and Mr and Mrs J. L. Hall and Miss Laura Wiseman appear at the opening of the new theatre, which is now rapidly approaching completion. A correspondent, writing to the ' Lyttelton Times' to-day warns the public not to be carried away by the false glitter of the Kumara rash.

Lytteltok, September 19. Captain Bayldon, of the schooner Sissy, reports seeing fires burning, evidently as signals, on Portland Island on Tuesday last. He was unable to communicate with the island owing to the heavy weather. {From our own Correspondent ) Auckland, September 18. Mr Oeighton has obtained a position on a leading evening paper in San Francisco, and has determined to settle there permanently. He has sent for Mrs Creighton. Mr Shaw, former proprietor of a West Coast journal and afterwards of Thames and Auckland papers, died at Philadelphia. A fire occurred at Waikato at the residence of a man named Shaw, employed as a storeman. Shaw had been suffering illhealth for some time, and kept his bed ; but on the outbreak of the fire he got out of bed to render assistance. The fire was at length extinguished with much difficulty, an<T Shaw returned to bed feeling much worse through excitement. In the space of fifteen minute? from the time of getting into bed he died, leaving a wife and child to lament his loss.

Bishop Moran has appointed Father Lynes Roman Catholic Vicar-General of Auckland Diocese.

Mrs M'Lean, wife of a seafaring man, was awakened at three o'clock on Sunday morning by a man seizing her feet. Her husband is absent. .She called out, and the mau, who had entered through the window, decamped.